Wednesday, May 07, 2008

COMMENTS: Business-person's special today, a curious fluke in the schedule given both teams have a day off tomorrow (so there are no travel needs); Dodgers pick up the homestand Friday vs. Houston, though the Mets do have to travel home to meet the Reds Friday. As accommodating as we are to the Mets' itineraries, we have been positively belligerent as hosts at the Stadium, soundly beating the Mets in game 1 and then pulling off an amazing come-from-behind victory last night that featured an awesome relief pitching performance from Hong-Chih Kuo and a thrilling 16-second rush of an inside-the-park home run from rookie Blake DeWitt. The resilience and tenacious play of the Dodgers has been great to watch and sorely missing since...the first half of last season, before the collapse...HEY! This is a new season, with a new manager, a new third-base coach who knows when to send runners, with a new $18M .162 batter in the lineup; I don't recall the Dodgers pulling off 11 of 12 any time last year. Go Blue!

Today's game also gives most of us a chance to watch those hypnotizing pulsing yellow circles on ESPN Gamecast. Let's hope the Dodgers get a lot of pulsing yellow circles (and subsequently score said circles) to support Penny's outing.

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Yes, I will be watching this one on television, having decided to not spend $15 to go park and watch the game live. See what you've done to me, McCourt? One day of parking at Dodger Stadium is a one month subscription to MLB TV, which I'll need when I go to Chicago. That's just plain crazy.

Those of you who can't watch the game missed a circus catch from Angel Pagan. He caught Ethier's foul pop-up right at the wall down the third base line, and then flipped head over heels over the wall. He was eventually okay, but it was pretty scary looking.

I am madly in love with Vin Scully, and I don't care who knows it. Every game, I swear there's at least one moment where I fall in love a little more.

This game, it was Scully's explanation of how we've all been mispronouncing Kuroda's last name. Scully was being Kuroda checking out of a hotel, and Kuroda said his name with the emphasis on the first syllable. Scully demonstrated, and gave a bit of a Japanese accent in the attempt, but said that he wouldn't be able to do that every time. He could say it once, but not every time.